In previous
sections, we have shown how the fossil record invalidates
the theory of evolution. In point of fact, there was no need
for us to relate any of that, because the theory of evolution
collapses long before one gets to any claims about the evidence
of fossils. The subject that renders the theory meaningless
from the very outset is the question of how life first appeared
on earth.

When it addresses this question, evolutionary
theory claims that life started with a cell that formed by
chance. According to this scenario, four billion years ago
various chemical compounds underwent a reaction in the primordial
atmosphere on the earth in which the effects of thunderbolts
and atmospheric pressure led to the formation of the first
living cell.

The first thing that must be said is that the
claim that nonliving materials can come together to form life
is an unscientific one that has not been verified by any experiment
or observation. Life is only generated from life. Each living
cell is formed by the replication of another cell. No one
in the world has ever succeeded in forming a living cell by
bringing inanimate materials together, not even in the most
advanced laboratories.

The theory of evolution claims that a living
cell-which cannot be produced even when all the power of the
human intellect, knowledge and technology are brought to bear-nevertheless
managed to form by chance under primordial conditions on the
earth. In the following pages, we will examine why this claim
is contrary to the most basic principles of science and reason.